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Metspitzer
Mar 31, 2013, 7:38:34 PM3/31/13
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The Crooked Forest (Polish: Krzywy Las), is a grove of oddly-shaped
pine trees located outside Nowe Czarnowo, West Pomerania, Poland.
This grove of approximately 400 pines was planted around 1930, when
its location was still within the German province of Pomerania. It is
generally believed that some form of human tool or technique was used
to make the trees grow this way, but the method and motive are not
currently known
The Crooked Forest (Polish: Krzywy Las), is a grove of oddly-shaped
pine trees located outside Nowe Czarnowo, West Pomerania, Poland.
This grove of approximately 400 pines was planted around 1930, when
its location was still within the German province of Pomerania. It is
generally believed that some form of human tool or technique was used
to make the trees grow this way, but the method and motive are not
currently known
Robert Carnegie
Apr 1, 2013, 6:32:52 AM4/1/13
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difficulty; bent trees, both accidental and deliberately caused,
are common. Google with the words "bent trees", including the
quote marks, elicits wider information. My parents had a
weeping willow that was partly horizontal, and there's a tree
near my house that's about 45 degrees from vertical, although
I think that probably was just pushed over sometime, such as by
a car, and not put right.
Apparently one theory about your case is that somebody wanted some
wood that was grown in that shape, but, for whatever reason,
their project wasn't completed, and the trees grew full size.
I wonder how they stand up to storms - are they in a sheltered
position?
J. J. Lodder
Apr 1, 2013, 9:37:06 AM4/1/13
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Metspitzer <Kilo...@charter.net> wrote:
> https://www.google.com/search?q=crooked+forest+poland&hl=en&client=firefox-a&h
s=DET&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=tshYUb
in past centuries, for sevral purposes.
Building wood for houses and ships, furniture, etc.
They stopped doing on a large scale by mid 19th,
when steel reinforcements became affordable.
This would appear to be a leftover
of what was once common practice,
Jan
> https://www.google.com/search?q=crooked+forest+poland&hl=en&client=firefox-a&h
s=DET&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=tshYUb
yrNIvW9AT0pYCYAw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1427&bih=661
>
> The Crooked Forest (Polish: Krzywy Las), is a grove of oddly-shaped
> pine trees located outside Nowe Czarnowo, West Pomerania, Poland.
>
> This grove of approximately 400 pines was planted around 1930, when
> its location was still within the German province of Pomerania. It is
> generally believed that some form of human tool or technique was used
> to make the trees grow this way, but the method and motive are not
> currently known
Not unusual. Wood was grown in curved shapes deliberately
>
> The Crooked Forest (Polish: Krzywy Las), is a grove of oddly-shaped
> pine trees located outside Nowe Czarnowo, West Pomerania, Poland.
>
> This grove of approximately 400 pines was planted around 1930, when
> its location was still within the German province of Pomerania. It is
> generally believed that some form of human tool or technique was used
> to make the trees grow this way, but the method and motive are not
> currently known
in past centuries, for sevral purposes.
Building wood for houses and ships, furniture, etc.
They stopped doing on a large scale by mid 19th,
when steel reinforcements became affordable.
This would appear to be a leftover
of what was once common practice,
Jan
August Rode
Apr 1, 2013, 4:34:46 PM4/1/13
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On Mar 31, 7:38�pm, Metspitzer <Kilow...@charter.net> wrote:
> https://www.google.com/search?q=crooked+forest+poland&hl=en&client=fi...
inclined to think that a 45 degree diagonal cut was made through the
trunk of the sapling, and the top rotated from vertical to horizontal.
It looks like grafting. My $.02 ($.00 in Canada).
> https://www.google.com/search?q=crooked+forest+poland&hl=en&client=fi...
>
> The Crooked Forest (Polish: Krzywy Las), is a grove of oddly-shaped
> pine trees located outside Nowe Czarnowo, West Pomerania, Poland.
>
> This grove of approximately 400 pines was planted around 1930, when
> its location was still within the German province of Pomerania. It is
> generally believed that some form of human tool or technique was used
> to make the trees grow this way, but the method and motive are not
> currently known
Because the bark takes a 90 degree turn right at the bend, I'd be
> The Crooked Forest (Polish: Krzywy Las), is a grove of oddly-shaped
> pine trees located outside Nowe Czarnowo, West Pomerania, Poland.
>
> This grove of approximately 400 pines was planted around 1930, when
> its location was still within the German province of Pomerania. It is
> generally believed that some form of human tool or technique was used
> to make the trees grow this way, but the method and motive are not
> currently known
inclined to think that a 45 degree diagonal cut was made through the
trunk of the sapling, and the top rotated from vertical to horizontal.
It looks like grafting. My $.02 ($.00 in Canada).
J. J. Lodder
Apr 1, 2013, 6:24:42 PM4/1/13
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if done early enough, and with enough care,
Jan
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